Ultra lightweight polymer foams are engineered to be lightweight while also capable of dissipating impact energy. They are mainly used in wrestling gears and similar applications. The microscale air pockets […]

Autoclaving cementitious syntactic foams will lead to the accelerated reaction between the highly alkaline sodium hydroxide and the reactive silica in the glass walls of microspheres. Therefore, scientists make use […]

Glass microbeads are essentially microscale marbles that look like white powder to the naked eye. A closer look with a microscope reveals their complicated particle geometry. The following images show […]

Hollow glass microspheres are commonly used as fillers where lightweight high-quality materials are targeted. They are used in polymer-based, cementitious, and even for ceramic syntactic foams where they are utilized […]